It is served by Sydney Trains T1 Western and T2 Leppington & Inner West line services.

The station serves one of the most multi-culturally diverse suburbs in the city.

To the west of the station lies Auburn Railway Signal Box, UGL Unipart's Maintrain maintenance facility, the Auburn Maintenance Centre and a Pacific National depot.

The station was upgraded in 2007 with new lifts and tiling by Haslin Constructions for RailCorp at a cost of $5.5 million.

[5] Busways operates two bus routes via Auburn station, under contract to Transport for NSW: Transdev NSW operates four bus routes via Auburn station, under contract to Transport for NSW: Auburn railway station is served by two NightRide routes: Media related to Auburn railway station at Wikimedia Commons